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Luanda Reggae Defenders - what is your long term agenda?

Luanda Reggae Defenders is a now a popular movement with roots in Vihiga and border Siaya and Kakamega counties Attention is brought to the manner and conduct the movement has gained fame and followers, mainly the Youths. The movement capitalizes on funerals. With a poor culture of putting the dead to rest, the Reggae Defenders have taken it by storm and rebranded the infamous ‘Disco Matanga’ – disco at funeral. Reggae Defenders on move. Pic: Charles Rankings: Facebook They mobilize quickly on the day the dead will be discharged from the mortuary. They have this huge old school sound system that is over buzzing to no clear reggae song - that they hire a pickup to carry - and it has a young DJ mainly standing there than mixing anything. Often, against the rules, the casket is grabbed from a hearse vehicle and tied to a motorbike. There it will be swayed and jerk breaked between other motorbikes on the narrow roads. That, is, how a fellow soldier, often a young dead, is mourned. ...

Discordant Voices; Luvai's translation

Here comes a bit more than transliteration.

MIOYO LUGANO LUGANO GIMBUHI.

Dada, mioyo lugano lugano gimbuhi
Ngihulira mu liavukana
Sigiveeye muvuhambaani

Mulala gung'usaa nyenye
Kumanya goosi vugira kweera

Ugundi gungayitsa ubuhinda, ubunyali no luyali
Vioosi nivivoheywe mu lududu lwa mavaha madoto
Mu ligotwa litaveeye nelihenda.

Ugundi nagwo gunangiranga mirembe gitabimwa
Ubwikutsiri vugira vuvitiriri
Ubuhambani mu goosi nende liegomba agayanzizaa geng'ine.

Dada, yaga gavoola ki?
Mwoyo gwange mwene goveeye ki?
Ni mwoyo ki gugiingi ageligali?
Manya ndi mwoyo gwo vugadi?

Muyiingu ive, muyanze wange,
Ulavula kudidikanira lisoma
Nokumiramira agakiri kulaviritswa no kudinyiritswa,
Nkano, Anzigale, wakamanyi
Kuva mwoyo no kuhulira mioyo lugano lugano.

Original Poem by Chahilu.

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